"As it's Burns Night," I said to Q, "I wonder if we shouldn't watch Local Hero?"
"That's a coincidence" she said. "I'm literally just reading a post on that very film."
So that decided that.
Quite a leap from Gregory's Girl to this - a confident leap. Burt Lancaster brings a note of sympathetic fervour to an entirely sympathetic group (there's no bad guy - well there is - the oil company. And the air force...) Peter Capaldi, Peter Riegert, Denis Lawson, Jennifer Black, Jenny Seagrove, Fulton Mackay, Christopher Rozycki, John Gordon Sinclair (motorbike rider).
This useful Guardian article has Forsythe recalling the making of the film.
Loved the digital watch that the sea is covering and its plaintive beeping. And the rabbit.
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| Pennan in Aberdeenshire |
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| The beach is actually on the other side of Scotland: the Silver Sands of Morar |
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| We did get somewhat carried away by Chris Menges' magic hour photography |
It's a film you get lost in.
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